Thursday, September 24, 2015

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“My team has gone through four time tracking apps in the last two and a half years…”

That's a quote from one of our customers — and it's something we hear a lot.

Your business runs on time. It's the fuel your team uses to
start, create, finish projects for yourselves and your clients.

You've got to make sure every minute counts… and can be counted:

Does your team have the availability for this new client?

Which clients are good to you, and which abuse your time?

Is your sales process too long and costly?

Are your internal marketing efforts giving a good ROI?

Is this team member under-utilized?

Where did all that time go?

And did you actually bill your client for all the time actually worked?

To answer these questions, you need a perfect handle on your team's time.
But you're all so busy.
Ironically, tracking your time takes time. Sometimes it takes a lot of time.
Your team hates the administrative overhead of logging their time, and so…
you suspect (or you know!) that you're mostly getting guesstimates,
after the fact.

Those guesstimates lead to bad data, impaired ability to make critical business
decisions, and, of course… you can't bill as much, either.

It's not that you're an authoritarian control freak, but you need to know.
And it's not that your team is sloppy, but all they really want to do is
focus on doing their work.

What if you could both get what you wanted?

“…Freckle is by far the most flexible & easy to use solution we have encountered”

“My team has gone through four time tracking apps (five if you count excel spreadsheets) in the last two and a half years. Freckle is by far the most flexible & easy to use solution we have encountered. The use of hashtags to categorize activity makes it quick and super easy to use, and having desktop and iOS timer syncing definitely helps someone like me who often walks into meetings without setting a timer beforehand at my workstation.”
Karl Eggers,
EfeqdevFreckler since June 2014

How much easier would your job be, if time tracking was so fast,
& easy, & almost fun, that your team did it with pleasure?

Imagine:

You wouldn't have to nag your team.

They wouldn't be distracted (or tired of nagging).

You'd have good data.

You could make good decisions… and nip problems in the
bud before they get bigger… and!!

You could bill more!

And, while you're imagining that lovely scenario… What if you could instantly see,
no spreadsheet required, what that time meant for your business:
work rhythms, availability, utilization, overhead.

What if your time tracking tool bent over backwards to serve you?

“If you find you’re spending more time managing your business than
actually getting work done, check out Freckle.”
— Forbes

We ran a small consulting agency ourselves (total combined experience: 24 years!).
And we hated the tools we had to use to run it.

“Freckle cured my aversions against time tracking.”Elisabeth IrgensFreckler since April 2013

That's why we designed Freckle Time Tracking from the ground up to help you
& your team get every last drop from your daily allotment of
480 business minutes… without stress, without nagging,
without wasted seconds.

When you use Freckle to track your time, you get the benefit of using a tool
designed to help you get the most of your business, to understand…

team member utilization

work rhythms

budget accuracy

client and project overhead (unbillable time)

…in addition to all the features you've come to expect.

In Freckle, it literally takes only 10 seconds to create a time entry for
a completely new client. You don't need to configure anything.

How will Freckle help you?

You'll be pleased to know that Freckle does give you all the basic
features you've come to expect from a time tracking & productivity tool:

Efficient time tracking

Unlimited projects

Fast & flexible reporting

Easy invoicing

Affordable, clear pricing

Quick support

But that's not all. Your business needs more than just time in, invoice out —
or you wouldn't be here. Here's what you get when you use Freckle
(and not those other, basic tools):

End your battles over time sheets. Freckle is so fun and
easy to use, your team will want to use it.
That's what our customers tell us again & again.

Reward yourself with efficiency. We work hard to make Freckle
super efficient so you don't have to waste your time or energy.
From creating new projects with a keystroke to entering your time on
any & every page, to keyboard shortcuts in the timer… we make it
fast & easy for you.

Work where you want. Our Mac & iPhone apps help you track
time from your menu bar, your phone – anywhere you work.
(Mobile web on Android, too!) Start a timer on your desktop and then
switch to your laptop, or your iPhone — the timer will follow you,
no time lost. And your software developers will love the ability to
track time directly from their Beanstalk or Github commit messages.

Honor business needs. Never round in your head again: Freckle
will automatically round up your timers and time entries to the
increment you specify. Add expenses or credits to your invoices.
Track & analyze your project or client overhead instantly with our
unbillable time feature.

Collaborate with your clients and team. See who's working
on what, when, and how often. Generate invoices, and reports at a
click from every page. Instantly download all of your reports in CSV,
Excel, or PDF. Share reports with your client or boss. No matter
what, we fit your workflow and keep everyone up to speed.

Join our customers who bill millions of dollars each month with

And euros, and pounds, and canadian dollars, and francs, and pesos, and yen and… and… and…

And your title isn't “Chief Executive Time Tracker.” You have a team to manage,
a business to run. Your team, too, has critical (valuable, billable) work to get done.

Let Freckle take away the worry & hassle of time tracking.

Try Freckle today, free for 14 days. It'll take you less than 3
minutes to get up and running and logging time on your projects.

Join thousands of companies that track their time with Freckle since 2008!

Start your free 14-day trial now
and never miss another billable hour!

Try Freckle on us with our 14-day fully functional free trial.
Don't worry, there's no long-term contract and you can cancel or change
your plan at any time.

Questions?

“The Freckle team has provided fantastic service and support at every step of the way.
In our opinion Freckle provides a superior tool at a far lower cost than comparative solutions."
Patrick Kozacik,
Axiom Real-Time MetricsFreckler since May 2016

All our plans include these features:

“Ridiculously easy time tracking that our team actually uses”—feedback from a customer

Support from the people that actually make Freckle, including the designers and founders

No installation necessary

No long term contracts

Hourly backups

Always-on, bank-grade SSL security

99.99%+ uptime

Unlimited projects

Multi-currency invoicing

Powerful reporting

Weekly timesheets

Billing increments

Track unbillable time

Expense tracking

Chrome App—great for your Chromebook

Freckle Mac App

iPhone App

Freckle Mobile—access Freckle on mobile web browsers

PDF, Excel & CSV export

QuickBooks Online export

Project sync from Basecamp

Import data from other time tracking apps

Track time from Github & Beanstalk

Modern, restful API

Connects to 500+ 3rd-party apps through Zapier

“Freckle just makes you want to keep track of your time.”

“Freckle is refreshingly light, agile, and easy to get into.”

“If you find you’re spending more time managing your business
than actually getting work done, check out Freckle.”

“The most striking part of the app is the user interface. […] You can enter all of the data from the keyboard. And that saves time. Time that could be spent on other projects.”

“Freckle acknowledges that while time tracking is a necessary task,
it isn’t our real work, but rather an interruption of it.
The thought is that if it were easy and painless to use, we would be more diligent about our time entries.”

“Freckle has taken the hassle out of managing my consultants time reporting."
Andrew Hanson,
Coding InertiaFreckler since June 2014

“We're loving it! Bloated systems that are slow and over-engineered led us to try Freckle.
Since we started using Freckle, everybody is booking hours again!”
Ruben Bos,
MangroveFreckler since May 2011

“Freckle has helped me measure my business goals—and then meet them!
Freckle is beautiful [and] the only app I use daily that
I don't want to change a piece of it—and then you go & change something that
I didn't even think would make my life easier & it does.
The invoicing feature has saved my life & gets me paid!”
Jessie Scheunemann,
Jessie Marie StudioFreckler since January 2012

“The Pulse is my favorite feature and what sold me on Freckle.
I can quickly see that I have already put in a
certain amount of hours for one client and not yet another, so I know to
dedicate some time to the other client. The Pulse really helps me manage my
time better and keep track of how I'm actually using my time.
It even lets me see when I'm not using my time efficiently.”
Lisette Rotman,
LisetteartFreckler since January 2012

“Ridiculously easy entry and super fast reports have highlighted
where we're spending time on "cost centers" for our nonprofit.
It's helped us get precise answers to questions
about how we can leverage our team, time, and resources better.”
Brian Nagendra,
City First EnterprisesFreckler since October 2010

“Our biggest issue was people forgetting to enter their time.
Since moving to Freckle, that issue has all but disappeared.
Previous time keepers we used had awkward or confusing interfaces.
Freckle is easy and fun to use. The timer bookmarklet helps
keep Freckle front-and-center without being too distracting or getting in the way.”
Peter Baumgartner,
Lincoln LoopFreckler since March 2011